For all his faults, and he had many - from infidelity, focus on manager/corporate rankings instead of absolute performance, allowing accounting shenanigans that

For all his faults, and he had many - from infidelity, focus on manager/corporate rankings instead of absolute performance, allowing accounting shenanigans that still haunt GE etc, wasn't Jack Welch was a product of the period in which he ran GE? His ability to manage a behemoth of GE's size during the globalization push that resulted in the death of so many industrial companies during that same period is undeniable.